The Shining
by Stephen King
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مرد نویسنده ای به همراه همسرو فرزندش در هتلی به عنوان سرایداراقامت می گزیند تا در طول فصل زمستان و در آرامش فضای هتل داستانش را به پایان برد اما دچار اختلالات روانی شده و قصد نابودی همسر و فرزندش را می کند
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Read in December, 2007
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Thrill seekers
This was an excellent book. In Stephen King greats it ranks behind The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. In my mind, it's next to the Dead Zone among King masterpieces.
The character development was fantastic. In fact, King himself has said that the movie did not live up to the esteemed billing that the book received because in Kubrick's interpretation, you never really feel anything for the characters. No attachment, no sympathy, no nothing.
In the novel, you develop a connection w...more
The character development was fantastic. In fact, King himself has said that the movie did not live up to the esteemed billing that the book received because in Kubrick's interpretation, you never really feel anything for the characters. No attachment, no sympathy, no nothing.
In the novel, you develop a connection w...more
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Read in March, 2008
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Read in May, 1991
I loved this book so much I was in 8th grade when I read this book. It was the very 1st SK book I ever read and I have been a fan ever since. I could not put this page turning book down even when it got the scary parts. It was a thrill to read this book and every so often I reread it. It was that good !!
THE SHINING is about several things, all tied up into one complex and multilayered whole. It is about a five-year-old boy who is impossibly mature and wise beyond his years, and who has a ter...more
THE SHINING is about several things, all tied up into one complex and multilayered whole. It is about a five-year-old boy who is impossibly mature and wise beyond his years, and who has a ter...more
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Read in April, 1991
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Ghost lovers, suspense fans, King fans, anyone
As this is a five star book, I have to really give an explanation on why this book deserves such a rating. This book was one of my first Stephen King books, as a matter of fact I think it was my second. The book really made me look into the face of horror novels differently. My only prior experience had been the Dark Half, but honestly, the Dark Half wasn't something monstrous that happened inside of the main character. George Stark (the villain of the Dark Half) was internal once, but Stark gre...more
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This is one of those books that I've read multiple times, and I consider it to be my favourite book of all time.
I know that many people consider Stephen King to be a horror writer, but I have to say I have not found most of the books I've read from him to be "horror". They are suspenseful, sometimes gory in their descriptions, most definitely psychologically thrilling, but not necessarily my definition of horror.
I think many of his books made into movies have more of a horror a...more
I know that many people consider Stephen King to be a horror writer, but I have to say I have not found most of the books I've read from him to be "horror". They are suspenseful, sometimes gory in their descriptions, most definitely psychologically thrilling, but not necessarily my definition of horror.
I think many of his books made into movies have more of a horror a...more
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Read in September, 2007
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Godrecommends it for: 12 year olds.
a few things... well many things are better off being left in adolescents, Stephen King (for me) may be one of them. I am a big fan of the movie and as my recollections were of how great a writer he was, I picked up the Shining (which I had never read) a year or so ago. I found it thin. I didn't think the characters were engageing. I was surprised at how the story progressed in a series of plops (poor flow) and it was just definitely NOT SCAREY. The worse thing about the experience of readi...more
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Read in January, 1999
Call me a snob, but I never read Stephen King until I heard an English teacher on a radio interview say, "Good readers don't always have to read good books. Sometimes, they're in a mood for Stephen King." So I read The Shining, and I think the teacher was unfair to him. The portrayal of the kid seeing into his parents' minds was not just good, but excellent, characterization. Later, one paragraph describes the boy's power and its effect on the house as a key turning a music book...more
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Read in August, 2007
recommends it for:
Those who liked the movie or who likes to be scared.
For fans of Stephen King, this one the classic book that everyone remembers. Unfortunately, in 1980, The Shining was released into theaters and the book was almost forgotten within the next decade. When I saw The Shining earlier this summer, I absolutely loved it. It was by far the scariest movie I'd seen, and just loved Jack Nicholson's flawless acting and amazing ab-libs (Heeeeeeeere's Johnny!).
I began to take more interest in scary movies. I watched the first 30 minutes of Carrie and liked ...more
I began to take more interest in scary movies. I watched the first 30 minutes of Carrie and liked ...more
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Read in November, 2007
Being the first Stephen King book I read and having seen the fantastic Kubrick movie before, I had no idea whether I would enjoy it, but I ended up loving it.
As a movie buff I understand most movies as having no value relation with the books. Great movies have come out from not-so-great books and great book have been the source of below average movies. In "The shinning", both mediums are both perfectly used for the story, but even tough it is the same story, the focus varies in the...more
As a movie buff I understand most movies as having no value relation with the books. Great movies have come out from not-so-great books and great book have been the source of below average movies. In "The shinning", both mediums are both perfectly used for the story, but even tough it is the same story, the focus varies in the...more
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This scene from Friends pretty much sums up my feelings about this book:
"Rachel: Hmm. (she opens the freezer) Umm, why do you have a copy of The Shining in your freezer?
Joey: Oh, I was reading it last night, and I got scared, so.
Rachel: But ah, you’re safe from it if it’s in the freezer?
Joey: Well, safer. Y'know, I mean I never start reading The Shining, without making sure we’ve got plenty of room in the freezer, y'know.
Rache...more
"Rachel: Hmm. (she opens the freezer) Umm, why do you have a copy of The Shining in your freezer?
Joey: Oh, I was reading it last night, and I got scared, so.
Rachel: But ah, you’re safe from it if it’s in the freezer?
Joey: Well, safer. Y'know, I mean I never start reading The Shining, without making sure we’ve got plenty of room in the freezer, y'know.
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Read in February, 2007
recommends it for:
People who like thriller
"The Shining" is a classic Stephen King novel. It has the suspense and thrill of a movi set to words in this thriller. In "The Shining" a man named Jack and his son (Danny) and his wife (Wendy) have trouble living as they are and decide Jack needs to get another job.
Jack gets a job as a janitor at a hotel called the Overlook, the main setting of the story. But, the Overlook isn't your average hotel, its is full of "ghosts" and "hauntings" according to th...more
Jack gets a job as a janitor at a hotel called the Overlook, the main setting of the story. But, the Overlook isn't your average hotel, its is full of "ghosts" and "hauntings" according to th...more
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Read in October, 2007
I have to admit, I was super bummed when I learned that my book club had selected The Shining as our October read.. I don’t do horror; books or movies. I was dreading The Shining. The first three hundred pages were fairly uneventful and even boring at times. I did not really get into the book until Jack goes down to the shed to look at the snowmobile. From that point on I was hooked. In this book, King does a great job of keeping the suspense going without overloading the reader. It seem...more
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Read in July, 2000
If you’ve seen the movie you’ve only seen a sliver of the most creepy and amazing tale Stephen King has ever written. You have to read this book!
I have read a lot of King’s books and this is the only one that has ever frightened me so much I had to read it with the lights on and someone else in the house. It tapped into fears I didn’t even know I had (ie topiaries).
If you don’t know this story already it’s about a haunted hotel in the mountains of Colorado that a family move...more
I have read a lot of King’s books and this is the only one that has ever frightened me so much I had to read it with the lights on and someone else in the house. It tapped into fears I didn’t even know I had (ie topiaries).
If you don’t know this story already it’s about a haunted hotel in the mountains of Colorado that a family move...more
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Personally, I feel that Stephen King is a so-so writer, vastly overrated, and far from deserving the large following he seems to have (another example of the all too frequent phenomenon where if something is wildly popular in American mass culture it can be counted on to most likely be mediocre). My memory of a cover story on Stephen King done by TIME magazine, probably over twenty years ago, is that he admitted as much himself. I could be wrong, but in the article I think he said he was surpr...more
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recommends it for: ghost-story lovers
recommends it for: ghost-story lovers
Skip the chapter when King starts babbling for thirty pages about wasps and the rest of it is good. Far, far, far, far better than that awful Kubric drivelish attempt at a movie. (The ABC miniseries version of the story is a better choice as movies go--pick that one.)
Everyone knows the basic idea--family spends some long-needed together time to recover from some insidious incidents involving alcoholic dad who has writer's block, but unfortunately pick a dangerously haunted hotel.
Some of...more
Everyone knows the basic idea--family spends some long-needed together time to recover from some insidious incidents involving alcoholic dad who has writer's block, but unfortunately pick a dangerously haunted hotel.
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The quintessential Stephen King is right here. The movie was totally awesome, and it still wasn't as good as the book. I like that he based it on one of my local landmark hotels, which, by the way, IS haunted (the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO). What I liked most about this book is that it shows what can happen when people are cut off from civilization for long periods of time. When Denver had the blizzard of 2003, I was trapped in my place for 5 days straight, and by the time my mom came ...more
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Read in May, 2008
If you like Stephen King...you will love this! I haven't read many of his books-
The Stand--5 Stars. So so so so good. A little unnverving, but not scary. A tale of good against evil. It is a big book, but worth the time. I can't help but think of it every time I drive to Vegas. (A lot of the story takes place along that stretch of highway.)
Carrie--I would sneak down to the libraray in High School to read this. Loved it.
Desperation--Really creepy, until the end. So lame!
The ...more
The Stand--5 Stars. So so so so good. A little unnverving, but not scary. A tale of good against evil. It is a big book, but worth the time. I can't help but think of it every time I drive to Vegas. (A lot of the story takes place along that stretch of highway.)
Carrie--I would sneak down to the libraray in High School to read this. Loved it.
Desperation--Really creepy, until the end. So lame!
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Read in March, 2006
This book was fantastic! The Shining is one of my favorite movies and I was really surprised (again) to see how different the movie was from the book. I liked the fact that it was very detailed, yet didn't bore me. Usually a lot of detail irritates me but this was very, very well written. It scared the crap out of me and every time I put it down, I didn't want to pick it back up out of fear. But when I did, I couldn't put it down. The book was 450 pages long but I flew through the pages and it ...more
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This book led to one of the most interesting examples of a book being quite different from the film that it spawned and yet both were fascinating in their own ways. Stephen King's books almost never lead to faithful film adaptations because so much of a Stephen King story is cerebral -- the kind of thing you can't translate to film. The best you can do is what Stanley Kubrick did -- take a well-written story and adapt it to a visual medium. I suppose it helps if you have people like Jack Nichols...more
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